Was just looking at the donations ticker…
It seems as though donations have almost stopped flowing in since this JD Vance announcement.
Was just looking at the donations ticker…
It seems as though donations have almost stopped flowing in since this JD Vance announcement.
Some how I forgot were supposed to VET [THEM]
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/05/trump-vice-president-picks-records-00161936
A mole hunt, a secret website and Peter Thiel’s big risk: How J.D. Vance won his primary
The former Trump critic leaned on a super PAC and his billionaire patron to put him in position for Trump’s all-important endorsement.
By ALEX ISENSTADT
05/03/2022 11:08 PM EDT
Tech billionaire Peter Thiel had already donated a record-breaking amount of money to support J.D. Vance in the Ohio Republican Senate primary — but last week, the Silicon Valley tycoon decided he wanted to give even more.
“Peter would like to make another contribution to the PAC, this time for $1.5 million,” a top Thiel lieutenant wrote to strategists running a pro-Vance super PAC in an April 26 email, a copy of which was obtained by POLITICO. “We are planning to send the wire today, but before doing so I just wanted to confirm you have everything you need from us.”
With that previously unreported donation, Thiel had given $15 million in total to bolster Vance — the largest amount ever given to boost a single Senate candidate. Thiel is a contrarian who became famous for making risky investments that paid off — and with Vance’s win in Tuesday’s primary, the PayPal co-founder and early Facebook financier struck it big again.
Vance was hardly a sure thing. His campaign was outspent by his better-funded rivals, and he had a long history of making anti-Trump statements that could have gone over poorly with GOP primary voters. In February, his campaign suffered a damaging leak of confidential polling data that painted a grim picture of his prospects, chilled his fundraising and set off a forensic hunt for a potential mole.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/03/jd-vance-win-ohio-primary-00029881